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Since it's the character that uses the item that normally pay the points for having use of it, your actual weaponsmith who is producing inventory is making skill rolls (PS: Armourer, Weaponsmith etc). Unless he's planning on equipping and using his product, he'd not need to burn points but sell them in exchange for money. This only applies to regular items! But, if mass production of enchanted swords is normal for the setting, then they MAY be considered "regular items". Typically, however, magic items are singular and require a points purchase (Fantasy Hero goes into this issue in more detail IIRC, but I haven't kept up with FH since 4e). A skilled swordsmith may well be able to make a superior quality sword with some bonuses, just as a top gunsmith can make a quality firearm, but those usually fall under normal stuff you can pay (a lot of) money for. However, it's setting dependant. By definition, true mass produced items aren't the product of expert artisans, though high quality manufacturing processes have an effect. An artisan that makes five vases a month is NOT mass producing. A factory that churns out 500 similar vases in a month is mass producing.

Indeed. But not required normally. Same as light fittings and plumbing in bases.

Dispel is the cleanest option to my mind. The power isn't destroyed - they can potentially put it on again. If you also want the target moved somewhere, you'll need to link it with a Teleport UOO. Teleporting the armour off the target could be done with just Dispel.

Yep. He should definitely go for planes with non-lethal bombs.

Have a look at how they were portrayed before that. It's not pretty. Though to be fair, before the Thirties they were most likely to be depicted the same as Chinese anyway. A reminder of Detective Comics #1: (And those are Chinese he's fighting, in an American Chinatown.)

GPS? No worries. That's not a universal here, but it's not such a big deal either. Phones have largely taken that role over anyway. Radio and music player of choice for sure. Vehicles are built as a normal character with a list of exceptions. If the characteristic isn't excluded, the vehicle has it. Your base Vehicle starts with STR and BODY set by Size, DEX 10, OCV 3, DCV 3, SPD 2, PD 2 and ED 2 PD and ED are resistant). It's simpler to have vehicles buy their movement because most vehicles only have one mode. Vehicles some things for free (zero END movement, a couple of points of resistant protection). All this for the cost of nothing. Leaping is specifically excluded, but that's probably a redundant hangover from previous rules where it was derived from STR. Better to mention that point, especially if people are mixing edition rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_production https://www.ammoland.com/2014/12/making-of-a-smith-wesson-an-inside-the-gun-factory-look/#axzz4z7vohjnQ I imagine robots are largely involved these days. It's mostly a matter of precision machine tooling parts and putting them together. Some components may be suitable for casting, stamping, or injection molds. Guns were some of the earliest things to use mass-production (Samuel Colt was a big mover and shaker in that regard).

Actual, deliberate propaganda is likely to be pretty bad anyway, whether it's Fascist, Democratic, Soviet or Imperial.

I wasn't using that example, but defining my own Dispel with a different special effect (making a weapon too hot to handle). I assume the Gun Fu Dispel probably has a few modifiers on it. For that matter "taking a gun apart" is hardly going to Dispel a sword. Knocking a weapon out of the target's hand, or making it too hot to grip is more universal - but also more easily recoverable from.

You've got to keep things in context. Bismarck wanted to reunify Germany (which the wars of religion had broken up, followed by French conquest under Napoleon) and restore them to a world power. In the 19th century, that meant Colonial Imperialism, so yeah, Germany had Imperial ambitions. They were playing catchup with Britain, France, Russia, Turkey, Austria, Spain, Portugal and The Netherlands. Japan fell into that trap as well, but had less options, so went for what it could in Asia. Italy had a go as well. I'm not excusing any of the colonial powers, any more than I take sides in the Thirty Years' War. It's just what it was.

Hmm? You mean when the French declared war on Prussia in 1871?

Cassandra, the jackbooted Hun thing was invented in World War One, well before all that. And while aggressors, the Germans weren't notably more brutal than the Allies in that war. It was all propaganda. As far as the Japanese goes, that was just the standard Asian stereotype dusted off and applied. Are you saying that war crimes justify depicting Asians as yellow monkeys? Slam Bradley was beating up Chinese in America. WW2 IS a special case, because unusually, one side was particularly bad.

I think everyone has to make their own call. I'm with Cygnia about Cosby etc. It saddens me greatly in particlar that Rolf Harris, who I loved as a kid is in that unwatchable group too. As far as stuff like sexism and racism in historical context, well sometimes that needs to be there or you're compromising the historical context and at least you can find counter-examples where it's shown to be wrong. Wartime racism propaganda is probably more extreme, since the gloves were deliberately off... all Germans as jackbooted, sadistic Huns is almost as bad as all Japanese as buck toothed, bespeckled, suicidal fanatics. The difference there is that the former was a more recent (WW1) target of racism. Africans, Asians and Jews in particular had it rough for much longer. There was a telling sequence recently in New Super-Man where Kong Kenan was mystically taken to Detective Comics #1 and sees Slam Bradley beating up a bunch of "yellow skinned goblins" for fun, which he finds funny. The scales are then lifted from his eyes and he is horrified to see the "goblins" are Chinese. I found that great writing - as a millennial from China, Kong has no context for that particular obsolete stereotype and couldn't recognise it.

Yeah, buying Extra Limbs as a good idea for Stretchers was never in dispute. That allows grabbing by coiling/wrapping with necks, tongues, legs and torsos, after all.

Been a while, and I no longer have my books, but I could probably be more useful than not. Couldn't really claim to be a proper expert though, I'm afraid. Quite a lot of the material ended up in Bill Willingham's Elementals comic book in some form, but I'm guessing you knew that. Those I do still have around somewhere.

Well, the region being called "West Bengal" doesn't help. It's like all those "far eastern" countries that are northwest of us here, eh?

You could build disarming as a Dispel as well. Resetting the power would require recovering the weapon. I'm sure that's been thought of before. Normally I'd just build on the existing Disarm maneuver, maybe using TK, but Dispel may work better when STR vs STR isn't appropriate (e.g. disarming by heating the sword so that the user drops it).

Hmmm... Might Autofire possibly be of use? That already has a "more effect the better your success roll" mechanic. Have to think on that. Actually, looking at your weather spell, it does a fair job already. If you lose the penalty for active points on the requires a roll and replace it with a custom limitation along the lines of "active points depends on success roll" I think you'd end up with what you want. Flipping the -1 per 20 points on its head, make it 20 active points per number succeeded by. That feels fair to me and is clearly in line with an existing mechanic.

Or Cincinatti ...and I think you may have meant eastern India. Possibly confusing the name of the Indian side (West Bengal) with where it is in relation to the rest of the country? It's only West in relation to East Bengal (East Pakistan/Bangladesh).

Well, the example has Defender act totally before Ogre, so it's not quite saying that. In the example he blasts him, but if he wanted to attack in HTH he'd have to move himself.

Fair enough. He should have been included in that list, especially given he's playing a major role. My apologies. And I did include Tessa Thompson on the Thor side, who's roughly equivalent in terms of profile and body of work. Neither have won any major awards yet. Disney having in-house SFX may very well be enough to explain a lot of the budget, though, especially if they were sloppy with producing stuff that didn't get used. Waititi does appear to have run a pretty tight ship in that respect. And whatever deals they struck with the Australian (well... Queensland) and New Zealand governments probably helped (they were prominent in the end credits). As per LoTR, they grabbed the NZ army as extras for the big fight scenes, I believe. Hmm. This has really stopped being a thread about Wonder Woman. Start a new one?

Is it just me, or does "Striking Appearance" make others think of this kind of thing:

No, he didn't. In fact the mention of drugs in his post does imply a more real world approach. I was responding to steriaca's post mostly, and mentioned the Code to remind people that what was in the comics usually didn't square up with what was really happening socially. Race could at least be depicted passively positively (the code didn't stop persons of colour being depicted, or written in a realistic and normal manner), and women's liberation could be discussed - but the real major social issue that was verboten under the code was the anti-war movement. If you have a realistic 60's superhero timeline, that can't be ignored either. Jim, small spelling correction - it's The Bangles. http://www.thebangles.com/

Right. So the prime example they use to explain it is basically identical to the 4e one, with the same result. Good enough for me.

Hela stepping in for Mistress Death in regard to Thanos is something that occurred to me already. No reason why she couldn't be his original inspiration. If this Thanos has been around long enough, they may even have crossed paths. Having said that, I'd not like to see them as a team. It'd be sufficient for her to be the ideal he wishes to sacrifice the universe to.